October 16: the two presidential candidates will be debating foreign policy. You will watch this second presidential debate of the 2012 season. Take notes on your notes organizer. Which topic and/or question that the moderator posed do you think is the most important to consider this election? Why? Which candidate addressed this question best? Why? What evidence or statistics did he use in his response? Did they use accurate facts? Go to www.factcheck.org to make sure! Use your debate note-taking worksheet to help you write a thoughtful, respectful, well-constructed post. Due Monday, October 22. Go the Election Day page for more information on where to watch it online.

*Remember: only include your first name, the first letter of your last name, and your social studies class period in your comment -- and capitalize the names of individuals!

Read this article first. Here's the link. Watch the second chapter of Secrets of the Dead video about the lost Minoan civilization that preceded the Greeks. Begin at 11:42. You only need to watch from 11:42- 25:00. Leave a comment here at the bottom about the video. What do YOU think happened to the Minoans? What is your reaction to the video clip? Leave your first name, last initial and your period. This will be a formative assessment. Due Tuesday, October 16.

Your job today: 1. Make sure your blog post is published. If you don't see yours, it means there were too many spelling errors, poor grammar, or you put your last name on. Remember, first name, last initial, and period only please. You can also leave a nice reply to a particular person's response. 2. Finish your work from yesterday.3. Move on to the Notes Organizer. This is due Friday and is a summative assessment. You need six (6)occupations listed and filled in completely and thoroughly. The rubric is below.

First, log on to CIS and open this Career Interest Inventory worksheet. Make sure you have both windows open--the worksheet and the website. When you have finished that, then go back to your Notes Organizer worksheet and finish it like the example here.

Here is my friend, MC Yogi. He's a famous hip-hop artist--his latest album is #1 on the iTunes world music charts! He admires Gandhi. Who is your favorite peacemaker and why?Is it one from the video? Add your comment below. Put your first name, last initial and period only.

This is my sister on the right. Her husband is on the far left. Who is the man in the middle? First student in each period to email me the answer gets a prize.

Please check your spelling before posting your comment. I may have to delete your comment if there are too many spelling errors! Thanks. Don't forget to be an awesome speller! Makes your words have all their power.

Who is this famous leader from ancient India? First person in each class to tell me the right answer gets a prize!

Here I am with my dog, Mojo, in Egypt checking out what may be Alexander's Tomb!

Is this Alexander's tomb?!

It now appears likely that Ptolemy adapted a vacant tomb that had been prepared by and for the last native Pharaoh of Egypt, Nectanebo II. However, this Pharaoh had fled south to Ethiopia, when Egypt had been invaded by the Persians in 343BC, so he never had the opportunity to occupy his tomb. The site of the prospective tomb was a chapel within the temple complex of the Serapeum in the cemetery area of ancient Memphis at Saqqara. It lay at the end of a mile-long avenue of sphinxes. The Serapeum complex was rediscovered by Auguste Mariette in 1850-1851 by excavating the sands away from the sphinxes one by one. Guarding the entrance to the chapel of Nectanebo II, Mariette discovered an incongruous semicircle of life-size Greek statues of poets and philosophers, which appear to date to the time of Ptolemy. Some of them can be identified, including Pindar, whose house and descendants Alexander had saved at Thebes, Homer, who was Alexander's favourite poet, and Plato, who had been the mentor of Alexander's tutor, Aristotle. Could these statues have been erected to honour Alexander's tomb?

Who is this? First person in each period to come to me and correctly identify this historical figure gets a prize!!